Inside Hollywood
Posted: February 3, 2014 Filed under: writing 1 Comment
From this profile of Beau Willimon and the writing staff of “House Of Cards”:
Meanwhile, Willimon stood in front of a table full of writers and spoke, while the writers, many of them playwrights whose work he admired, sat and listened and occasionally chimed in. One writer, whose back was toward me, idly surfed the Internet: He researched a plane ticket, then checked out an Airbnb listing for a tropical getaway for $99 a night, then bought some camping gear, then browsed an article with the headline “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.”
(An excellent detail although why did reporter Adam Sternbergh include it I wonder? Photo by Ruddy Roye.)
This is why phones and laptops must be banned from the writers’ room on the first day of pre-production.